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Haywire

01.23.2012 screen

We have us a situation here where a champion athlete is making the transition to the big screen, which is not uncommon. Many famous athletes have debuted in some respectable mainstream roles. Jim Brown began his acting career with a supporting role in a western called Rio Conchos. Chuck Norris’ first credited role was supporting [...]

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The Wire – Season 3

01.21.2012 screen

I’m trucking along with the same set of Baltimore cops and politicians and a few new characters. All told, I finished three seasons of The Wire in the last twelve months. That’s about 36 hours of video all consumed on my iPhone, mostly on airplanes. This show does not need a big screen. Who needs [...]

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Black Swan

01.20.2012 screen

I’m getting concerned that I may have a full-on movie addiction. For the second night in a row I’ve spent ninety minutes (that I’ll never get back) watching a flick on the free hotel HBO. Oh I had grand plans; in order, I was going to get back to the room, get a workout in, [...]

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Red Riding Hood

01.19.2012 screen

I’m not proud of this. I’m not sure Gary Oldman should be proud of this either. On this very night that my wife went to see Gary Oldman in Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, I sat in a sorry old Courtyard by Marriott about 600 miles away and watched Red Riding Hood on the free hotel [...]

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The Descendants

01.02.2012 screen

My holiday movie marathon continues. I’ve had some varied experiences: a remake of a foreign thriller, a British period-piece/crime fighting buddy movie, and now, an Oscar front-running drama with a famous American actor. I won’t rank them or compare them, that wouldn’t be right. Okay, maybe I will. Suffice it to say, I’ve really enjoyed [...]

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A Game of Shadows

01.01.2012 screen

There are some great crime fighting duos in the annals of screened entertainment. Holmes and Watson can hold their own against the best of them, at least Guy Ritchie’s version can. I didn’t think this a few years ago when I left the first Sherlock Holmes so my expectations were low. Well, as it inevitably [...]

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The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

12.26.2011 screen

There are certain things I glom on to. Fixate may be a better term than glom. All kinds of different things really, and The Millennium Trilogy is one of them. Other recent fixations: The Wire Three Floyds beer British spy stories Sue Grafton’s alphabet series NBA This fixation bias could be a character flaw of [...]

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Live at the Beacon Theatre

12.24.2011 screen

This feels like the future to me. Let me start from the beginning. I saw Louis C.K. for the first time back in April on the Talking Funny special on HBO. He was kind of funny so I started following him on Twitter. I didn’t really pay much attention until I started seeing internet chatter [...]

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Fair Game

12.18.2011 screen

Valerie Plame was in the CIA. She was trying to figure out if the Iraqis had nukes back in 2002. Her husband, Joe Wilson, was even getting involved in the spy stuff. He was a former ambassador and took a trip to Niger to check an important piece of intelligence. A very important piece. Then [...]

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The Marinovich Project

12.11.2011 screen

Wow, I remember Robo QB well. I recall my high school buddy, the only USC fan in Findlay, talking up Todd Marinovich. My buddy was always ahead of the game on college football recruiting and he hated the Big Ten. He would tote out stories about Marinovich as proof of how much the Pac 10 [...]

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Page Eight

11.06.2011 screen

I was just sitting in my hotel room, staring at the TV and flipping channels, and I came across a particularly intense discussion that a bunch of people with British accents were engaged in. I recognized a few of them as relatively famous actors and they seemed to be playing a bunch of spies, so [...]

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Red

11.04.2011 screen

This is an action flick. If I recall, this did not get panned. It has a serious all-star cast and they have great chemistry. Mary Louise Parker was especially refreshing and Malkovich was spot on. It was cute. It had a few cool action scenes. Oh yeah, it had a sweet action scene in Chicago. [...]

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